Jimmy Joe Roche
Jimmy Joe Roche is Visual Artist and Underground Filmmaker, based in Baltimore, MD. His works have been screened in venues and museums all over the U.S. and Canada including the Corcoran Museum of Art[1], Walters Museum of Art[2], Anthology Archives, New York Underground Film Festival[3], Yale College, the Great America Music Hall, and San Francisco international Animation festival to name only a few. His recent collaboration, Ultimate Reality, with musician Dan Deacon has gained national press attention [4][5]. Roche has also worked with the academy award winning filmmaker Jonathan Demme, most recently acting in the Film Dancing with Shiva, now in post production[6]. In 2006 he shot and edited the Neil Young Heart of gold: Behind the scenes featuret[7], and in 2003 he worked with Demme to create the Journal for the for the Lunatic Corporal Melvin in the Paramount film Manchurian Candidate. Recently Roche's Baltimore Shopping network was featured on the New Museums Web site Rizhome.com[8], and his music video for Deacon's Crystal Cat was featured on the front page of YouTube, gathering over half a million hits and counting[9]. Roche Received his BFA from SUNY Purchase in Film in 2004, and his MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2008. In June 2008 Roche will have his first solo exhibition of his work at R.A.R.E Gallery in Manhattan, Chelsea[10].